cube /kūb/

1. A solid body having six equal square faces, a solid square
2. Anything with this shape
3. The third power of a quantity (mathematics)

1. To raise to the third power (mathematics)
2. To cut into cubes
3. To calculate the amount or contents of in cubic units

cūbˈage or cūˈbature noun

1. The act or process of finding the solid or cubic content of a body
2. The result thus found

cūˈbic adjective

1. (also cūˈbical) relating to a cube
2. Solid, three-dimensional
3. Isometric (crystallography)
4. (cubic) of or involving the third power or degree (mathematics)
5. (of volume) equal to that contained in a cube of specified dimensions

A cubic equation

cūˈbically adverb

cūˈbicalness noun

cūˈbiform adjective

cūˈbism noun

A modern movement in painting, which seeks to represent several aspects of an object seen from different viewpoints arbitrarily grouped in one composition, making use of cubes and other solid geometrical figures

cūˈbist noun and adjective

cūbistˈic adjective

cūbistˈically adverb

cūˈboid noun (mathematics)

A solid with six rectangular faces, the opposite faces being of equal size

1. (also cūˈboidal) resembling a cube in shape
2. Relating to the cuboid bone

cube root noun (mathematics)

The quantity of which the given quantity is the cube

cuboid bone noun (anatomy)

(in the foot) the outer bone of the tarsus connected to the heel bone and the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones

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